#imaginaryhomelands

[vmarinelli]

(Insert here @courtneylove's¹ tender, low-growling: "Well I went to school / in Olympiaaaaa…") ✴️✴️✴️ Ex-Olympia resident who 🏳️‍🌈 founded city's pride march🦄 26+ years ago lollygags in @evergreenstcol parking lot, for want of sufficient courage to GET OUT OF HER DAMN CAR & thus, SIMPLY SET FOOT on the campus to which, 3 decades earlier, still too young to vote, she'd moved (sight unseen and following 3,000+ miles' travel)—arriving at C- Dorm with little more than her trusty knapsack of intergenerational trauma and poverty.² NEWS AT 5. (Maybe!) ✴️✴️✴️ _________ ¹ EVEN THOUGH Hole's (Lord goddess, let us never say 'seminal') harsh-gorgeous "Live Through This" didn't come out until the year after I was reported to Washington state police as a missing person. (If we can each survive our things, then I should DAMN sure be allowed cast that album back in time, to when I most needed it.) HAHAyesreallyohgod. ² SPOILER: First effort to climb Mount Baccalaureate was derailed by the violence of my 3rd year, followed by the homelessness of my 4th—having successfully hid the latter problem, all that final Fall term, from my (rightly!) renowned sociologist professor, Stephanie Coontz. (Who is, uh, speaking here today. So. This should be… interesting?) GAHHHHHHH ___ 👞👞 _____👞👞 __________👞👞 _______________👞👞 #Icandoit #probably #PTSD #olywa #LGBTQ #anxiety #olympia #notdeadyet #imasurvivor #personalhistory #portablecrucible #returntoevergreen #keeponkeepingon #insearchoflosttime #dissociationstation #imaginaryhomelands #JesusGetOutOfTheCarAlready (at The Evergreen State College) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpK6Q_xg1cz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6vg7ewsegs03

[saltyourgame]

I feel as if I have been plunged, like Alice, into the world beyond the looking-glass, where nonsense is the only available sense. And I wonder if I’ll ever be able to climb back through the mirror.

Salman Rushdie

[dailyintimidations]

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate material that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death.

Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands

[vmarinelli]

STORE CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR CONCEPTUAL RE-EVALUATION –long-faded marker on paper, site of funky old bookstore ⛅ #PDX #Portland #imaginaryhomelands (at Hawthorne District) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp8IKOsl_NM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17bosalgfba4s

[vmarinelli]

Couldn't make it out for today's @cordillerantours exploration, but my Chomebook is happy to convey implicit shoutouts for said co. (+ @opensignalpdx & @commongroundspdx) once I am finally out and about, visiting other excellent #pdx enterprises. (Tonight's activity: gawking at all the beautiful and/or weird books and people @powellsbooks; now gonna write while spouse and bro play Streetfighter @PDXOutrage.) (Which, btw, offers an excellent portobello sandwich.) So basically, #livingthedream in #Portland. 🐦 🐦 🐦 (at Outrage Esports Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp6DeqzlA09/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jkem83wtw503